Feed-water tank.



J. W. HEID.

FEED WATER TANK. APPLICATION man APR.2|. 19:4.

1 1 62,356. Patented Nov. 30, 1915.

coLunllA PLANOGDAPH C0,. WASHINGTON, n.

whereby the same is protected from NEED S TE PATENT fi m r OHN W. HEID, orqnrrnnson, wisoonsnvg F ED-WATER TANK.

To all whom it may concern: V

Be it known that I, JOHN W. H1211), a citizen of the. United States, and resident of Jefferson, in the county of Jefferson and State of Wisconsin, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Feed-l/Vater cow-barns and its object is to provide a simple, economical and effective tank of the above character arranged in such manner that the water supply is delivered from a point a predetermined distance from the bottom of the tank and exteriorly thereof, having means for incasing the delivery mouth, being choked by straw or other foreign matter ,deposited in the water incidental to its use.

So far as I am aware, hereto-fore tanks of this character having ordinary means of supplying water thereto are frequently choked at the point of supply and thus the feed is stopped, while, at the same time the water is more or less contaminated by the foreign matter that becomes clogged about the point of water delivery. My invention, therefore, is designed to overcome the above objectionable features.

With the above ob struction and combination of parts as hereinafter set forth with reference to the accompanying drawings and subsequently claimed.

In the drawings Figure 1 represents a plan view of a double tank embodying the fea-' Referring by characters to the drawings, lorepresents a tank provided with a central portion 1, whereby the same is separated In the juxtaposed corinto compartments.

midway of the ners of the compartments,

, length of the tank, the same is provided with an inwardly projecting throat 2 that extends from the bottom to a .point slightly below the upper edge of the tank, as shown, at which point the throat terminates with an abrupt wall 2 having formed thereover a ported refeed-water', tanks especially adapted for use in connection with V ects in view the invention consists in certain pecuharitles of con- 7 Specification of t i' n Patented Nov. 30, 1915. Application filedAprilZl, 1914. seriaino. 833,418.

ceiving cavity 3, it being understood that there is a port 8 arranged upon each side of the partition 1. A branch connection st of.

a water-pipe is arranged to communicate with the receiving cavity 3, as shown, and

the throat as a whole is incased by guardshields 5, 5, which guard-shields are centrally ribbed and envelop the entire throat, being provided with uppercut bottom portions 15,, which constitute discharge months for of each.

the water. The upper portion 5 shield forms a practically air-tight cover for its companion discharge port 3. Each shield is held in positionby sets of retaining lugs 6, whereby the shield is guided when forced downward to its seat and, after so seated, the shields are each detachably con fined by the set-screws 7 which set-screws are in threaded union with ears 8 that extend from the cap portions 5 of the shields,

within notched recesses 7 that are formed in the adjacent wall of thetank. By this construct-ion, when the set-screw is turned in one directlon, the shieldlsforced solidly tank. 1

By this method it is apparent that the water in beingfedto the tank will first be the said set-screws being adapted to impinge discharged-at approximately the water level and 1s thereafter caused to travel down- I wardly in the channel formed between the throat 2 and shell 5 and from thence it discharged at the bottom of the tank through the mouth-5. g

It is obvious from the foregoing description that the point of supplying the water to the tank cannot beclogged as any foreign material is trapped by the shell 5 which protects the point of discharge. v

It is also obvious that, while I have shown a double compartment tank, I may without departing from the spirit of my. invention,

use a single tankwith a point of delivery in its corner or such point of delivery may be intermediate ofthe ends of the tank.

It is alsowithin the scope of my invention to attachthe guard shield in any suitable manner within the knowledge-of skilled me e chanics as may be found desirable. I claim: 1. A feed-water device comprising a trough having an inwardly projecting throat that extends from the bottom of said trough and terminates with a receiving cavity, the

;said cavity having spaced intake ports in its upper'vvall communicating With the trough,

a pipe in communication With the bottom Wall of said cavity, a partition Wall carried by the trough and located between the intake tition Wall thereof for incasing the intake cavity ports.

2. A feed trough provided with a Waterreceiving cavity having an intake port, the

cavity being located in a corner of the trough, a guard shell incasing the receiving cavity about the intake port and adapted to extend to the bottom of said trough, means extending from the Walls of the trough for sliding engagement with the guard shell,

and an obliquely disposed setscreW carried by the guard shell adapted to engage a Wall v i JOHN WV. HEID.

Witnesses:

' JOHN A. FEMH 'LTZ,

J. WM. HEID.

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